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Khalif   Listen
noun
Caliph  n.  (Written also calif, kaliph, kalif, khalif)  Successor or vicar; the civil and religious leader of a Muslim state; a title of the successors of Mohammed both as temporal and spiritual rulers, used formerly by the sultans of Turkey.





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... of yore and in ages and times long gone before, in the city of Baghdad, a fisherman, by name Khalif, a man of muckle talk and little luck. One day, as he sat in his cell,[FN263] he bethought himself and said, "There is no Majesty and there is no Might save in Allah, the Glorious, the Great! Would Heaven I knew what is my offence ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 8 • Richard F. Burton


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